Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jan 23, 2008 6:47pm PSTER arrives exactly when it plans to arrive. Not a minute sooner.
- Your latest wrongly
imprisoned story
- MySpace private pictures
href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/01/myspace_torrent">hacked
- Parents crashing
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/01/23/technological.turfwar.ap/index.html">online
party
- Latest tourism
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/science/space/23cnd-spaceship.html?bl&ex=1201237200&en=3ace211115c14bac&ei=5087%0A">space
craft
- MPAA
href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/movie-industry-admits-it-overstated-piracy-on-campus/?hp">admits
exaggerating
As for the the videogame news around these parts today:
- Perpetual Lawsuit Dropped
- THQ Cancels Frontlines on PS3
& Closes Concrete Games
- New GTA4 Info
- Replay Couch 11
- Healing Guitars
- New Prince of Persia Game
- Haze PS3 Delay
- Team Fortress 2 Changes Detailed
- Uwe Boll = Crazy
- Faith and a .45 Announced
Lastly, I find myself back to M&Ms after all of these years. I dabbled with the
peanut ones for a while but my heart belongs to the originals. It is true love.
Xbox One does not provide any built-in DVR capabilities
Xbox One increases friends lists to 1,000
Xbox One achievements dynamic, not limited to single games
Xbox One Kinect reading emotions and heart rate



Thread Truncated. Click to see all 55 replies.
I swear, these things might be cool if everyone weren't such tightwads. Everyone wants to charge me $30 for a crappy program that only does one thing (and generally badly).
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 7 replies.
Never mind that I lurked for years during the era of Stuff That Sucks - none of that matters until you've spent time and effort seeking goals only gamers could possibly appreciate. For that is the essence of The Shack. You?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 90 replies.
first day I brought kitty home: http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/kitty/IMG_0838.JPG
After surgery to remove deformed eyes: http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/kitty/IMG_9168.JPG
After surgery: http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/kitty/IMG_0179.JPG
Happy kitty :D
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 65 replies.
We'll get confirmation tomorrow around 1:45EST when they do their press conference.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 33 replies.
Gamewith.us seems to be broken or something, I'll check back later.
I only bought Drake's fortune tonight. I have like 30 360 games and I only saw like 3 ps3 games I was interested in, hopefully more come along eventually.
Anyway, I'm downloading a lot of demos though. Should keep me busy for a few days :)
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 9 replies.
I seriously want it to die. I have tried on THREE SEPARATE occasions to install it on a personal computer. Twice on a laptop, both of which failed spectacularly. Once because the installer repeatedly hung during repartitioning, and once because of some incompatible hardware.
This time I'm installing Ubuntu on a desktop, since I'd like to host my very simple blog on my personal computer and have it load in less than 20 seconds (which is Dreamhost's current level of service). I figure, Linux has evolved in the past few years, and Ubuntu is supposed to be easy to run. How naive I am...I made it through the install, but when it boots up the monitor shuts down and says "cannot display this mode". Okay, thinking back to the 80s, maybe I need to force VGA mode or something. But wait, when I get to the command line, my keyboard decides to randomly type 3-6 characters every time I press a key. ARG.
Seriously, Microsoft may suck as a company but Linux is even worse. And I'm happy for you Apple people, but they have to support a tiny fraction of the hardware combinations that the Linux and Windows people need to support.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 48 replies.
This is an animal that both fascinates, and terrifies me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAHACe0uc64
The 3 toed sloth.
I swear - if you gave the thing cocaine - it would look and move exactly like the Fiend from Quake 1.
The reason they're so slow - is because they're waiting. They're waiting man. Waiting for us to let our guard down.
Drucifer can worry about squirrels all he wants - but it's the Sloths that will end us all.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 34 replies.
funny stuff!
Part 1:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=148212&title=operation-deserter-storm
Part 2 :
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=148348&title=operation-deserter-storm-pt.-2
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 9 replies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngRq82c8Baw
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 5 replies.
In a single life.... 46 points, 9 ubers, 9575 points healed, 6 peopel dominated
Holy shit.... (check my steamid page if you dont believe me). I pretty much demolished any and every point total I ever had before. GG to boney, jason26, and carrion for being awesome heavies and allowing me to accomplish this earlier.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 11 replies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InZNBcJTmWs
probably the greatest thing on the internet ever....hahahaha
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 90 replies.
WTB more gank so these level 4's don't take ages to complete. Seriously. I can pull a whole pocket and tank each and every mob for hours. And most frigs, cruisers and bc's go down in notime. But knocking down Battleships is a major pain in the ass. Plus their big drops clog my cargobay so hanging around salvaging shit aint happening eiter. :-(
Guess i'll have to train guns to help my drones out a little.
How are your EVE adventures coming along?
P.S. Want to be in the EVE Shacknews corp? PM me.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 7 replies.
Tuesday
We did all types of bear hug defense. With arms free, arms held high and arms held low (not much difference) and from all angles. This was the 1st time I've felt like I had to learn and remember things rather than just using natural instincts. But by the time the class was over I had it. To finish the night off we would punch someone with a pad for 10 seconds and then as soon as the 10 seconds was up one of 3 people would run in and bear hug you from a random side and random place. So you would be attacked 3 times. You did that 3 times, and then swapped. Just helped sink in what you learned.
While I was bear hugging this small guy from behind he lent forward and swung an elbow back which connected with the side of my forehead. It opened up a small cut and I had a nice egg / mouse on my head. To top it off some other guy did it to the other side of my head the next round (not as bad though).
_Thursday_
Tonight we did straight punch deflection with counter attack and finish. Seems I always get partnered up with the big fuckers. It was good fun though and I'm pretty confident with it now. I blocked about 95% of the punches, and the ones I missed my body was out of the way anyway. To finish the night off we got into groups of 3, one of us attacked, one had focus pads (the guy being attacked) and one had a big pad to block the attacker. You'd go at it as hard as you could for 1 minute and then swap. These are so tiring and so awesome at the same time. Gets out all your aggression.
_Leveling Up_ in reply...
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 11 replies.
"in other news, that sweeney todd movie is a MUSICAL. Funnily the previews have no singing in them and the movie appeared to be 90% singing.
thats false advertising.
i walked out and got a voucher"
hahaha, my friend is awesome
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 25 replies.
installing Sling Player on my HTC Touch and watching TV where ever the hell I want. Provided I have a good EVDO connection, which I do where ever I am, generaly.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 16 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 25 replies.
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC36625320080123
The fact that she's on the dole is just the icing on the cake. also, pics plz
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 23 replies.
rape in reply
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 59 replies.
Next-generation Console Debut of the Grand Theft Auto Franchise Set for April 29, 2008
http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=289342
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 7 replies.
How do you disable Color Management?
I remember on PS7 you could disable it, but on CS2 apparently you cant ?
I dont print my stuff at all, just want to build some web templates.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/super-mario-2-is-better-with-drumming/
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/23/canon-rebel-xsi-official-move-over-xti/
"3-inch live view LCD" Holy shit!
Ships April, $799 and $899 for body-only / included EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens, respectively
A kit IS lens? How can I say no? I CAN'T! XTi for sale. (Okay, the downgrade to SD makes me :( but only b/c I have a lot of CF) Also, " Spot metering 4% at center" - I don't know what that 4% at center means but it is 4% more than the XTi.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08012403canoneos450d.asp
Now, let me take the time to say that I really wish Canon would stop crippling the Rebel line because it doesn't want it to seem to be better than the next step up. Car makers do the same thing (so top gear tells me). They add a little feature here or there and scale something back to make the models seem different when they damn well could all have these features.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 9 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 8 replies.
especially if they ever come out with a keyboard attachment
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 2 replies.
ZOMG!!
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 17 replies.
TL;DR - NBC to stop making pilots (no more pilot season)
How is this cheaper for them to do? Surely this will lead to more duds being commisioned?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 10 replies.
http://www.stupidvideos.com/video//Rachmaninoffs_Big_Hands/?m=new#56301
Clever and amusing.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
No.
No. Fucking. No.
This is not what I paid $2.50 for.
I paid $2.50 to see Vinnie Jones beat the tar out of some people - instead - apparently - I'm about to watch something funded by that most lame of all "entertainment" instutitions, Vince McMahon.
Fuck this. And fuck him. I was lied to at the video store :(
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 8 replies.
I'll get back on march 20th but apparently I have to go to Sri Lanka to work in April.
It's exciting of course but i was looking forward to settling back into my hometown for a bit :(
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 15 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 14 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 41 replies.
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 21 replies.
Caveat: I don't like indie music. I've never cared for it. I prefer higher production value. Mostly instrumental or soundtracks. Some popular stuff.
I've been listening to the Juno soundtrack for about 24 hours nonstop. I just can't stop it. What's wrong with me, Shack?
Thread Truncated. Click to see all 6 replies.
You must be logged in to post.